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2002-09-11

Mine is not much of a story. As like many everyday ordinary citizens of this great country -- I was was doing an ordinary thing that day. I was enjoying a late summer vacation with my husband, sister and brother-in-law at the Jersey shore. We happened to be watching the Today Show while we were waiting for my brother-in-law to get ready for our day trip to Cape May, NJ. Those images of the planes hitting the Trade Towers will be indelibly embedded in my mind. We knew that when we saw that second plane hit the second tower that these were no ordinary "accidents". We knew that our sovereignty had been violated by some kind of terroristic group but like most people the words like "Al-Quaida" and "Jihad" had little meaning for us before 9/11. All the while we were listening and watching the events unfold on TV, we wrer seeing another chapter of our country's history unfold before our eyes. For some reason, I particularly remember a news report from a reporter inside the Pentagon before that building was struck. He was just empathizing about the tragedy in New York City when all of a sudden his voice became very shaky and he stated that there was an explosion of some kind in the Pentagon. It was very chilling to actually here that live explosion on air. Although I have no direct connection with anyone who lost loved ones in any of the events that ocurred on 9/11 -- I think of their losses daily and pray for them and our nation.